Winter Flock Care
The cold weather has arrived, and that can be stressful for your chicken flock and for us chicken keepers too. I remember my first winter...
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Aug 30, 2021
Chasing the Feather and Egg Rainbow
It's inevitable, really. The longer you have chickens, the more of them you'll end up with. It all starts innocently enough. Just a...
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May 22, 2021
Chicken Math - Adding Pullets to Your Flock
Raising chickens is a heartwarming experience, that is until the first time you add new members to your flock and you realize they really...
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Apr 27, 2021
Spring Fling
I fall in love with the farm all over again at this time of year. The new life and promise of what is to come during the spring and...
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Mar 9, 2021
Happy Mail
In my 11 years of chicken keeping, I had never ordered chicks in the mail from a hatchery until this year. Most of the time I buy chicks...
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Jul 1, 2020
Full Coop, Happy Heart
It had been a while since we added a big group of chickens to the farm. In 2012, we moved the founding members of 5R Farm – Rhoda,...
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Nov 20, 2019
We're in Backyard Poultry Magazine!
I was thrilled to be featured in Backyard Poultry Magazine! You can read my article right here.
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Oct 27, 2019
The End of an Era
It's the end of an era at the farm as we bid goodbye to our flock matriarch, Raquel, the last of our original 5R Farm feathered ladies....
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Feb 10, 2019
Wishing away Winter
Oh winter, I’ll be glad to bid this one goodbye. It started out as a fairly uneventful winter, busy with work and the holidays, but still...
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Dec 9, 2018
Thankful
We’ve had so much going on at the farm that the end of summer and fall just flew by this year! A big project that has been ongoing for...
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Mar 22, 2018
Chick Season
Spring is an exciting time at the farm for many reasons, pretty spring flowers in the yard, starting seeds in the greenhouse, the...
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Feb 18, 2018
February on the Farm
After months of the chickens spending most of their time hunkered down in their coops from the cold and the wind and the rain, they are...
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Jan 18, 2018
Rest Easy Reuben
My special needs rooster, Reuben, finally crossed over the rainbow bridge. Of course I knew this day was coming, I’ve known it for a...
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Dec 27, 2017
A Very Good Year
This was our fourth year living at the farm full time, and every year it gets better and better. One of my favorite things about living...
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Dec 6, 2017
Sweet Rosie
I’m pretty sure that sweet Rosie’s days with us are numbered, and I am savoring every moment spent with her. Rosie is one of the founding...
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Nov 13, 2017
Lucky the Rooster
Lucky is one of the two chicken chicks that were hatched this spring along with the turkey poults (which is what baby turkeys are called)...
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Aug 23, 2017
Surprise Momma
We have a new momma at the farm, this time around it’s a chicken momma, and we have four new chicks as well. I had thought we were done...
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Apr 9, 2017
Garden Time
At long last, spring is here! It’s time to get my hands in the dirt and fight the good fight against slugs, rodents, cute little wild...
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Mar 26, 2017
Egg Vignette
Well, gosh, sorry I’ve taken a few weeks off from the blog. There’s not been too much going on at the farm recently except for a whole...
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Feb 4, 2017
Rosie & Reuben
This winter was colder than usual, with several weeks of freezing or below freezing temperatures. Most of our feathered friends get along...
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